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...KARL LAVAL YOUNG c/o Postmaster San Francisco...
...Walter P. Chrysler (1928), Owen D. Young (1929), Pierre Laval (1931), Hitler (1938). Other readers were stumped by Hugh Johnson (1933), Haile Selassie (1935) and Wallis Simpson...
...shall the church adapt its leadership to the changing society? One faction, led by Laval University's dean of social sciences, the Very Rev. Georges-Henri ("Jolly Monk") Lévesque, argues for a militant championship of the working class; this faction has promoted cooperatives and Catholic trade unions. An opposing group, supported by Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, believes that the rural parish society must be strengthened and that the church must stay aloof from class antagonisms, though it should fight for social justice...
Into the Open. Last week Maclean's magazine, in an article by Ottawa Editor Blair Fraser, brought the argument into the open. Author Fraser gave unstinted support to the Levesque faction and belabored the opposing group. "The Duplessis government," he charged, "has used every kind of pressure on Laval University to fire [Levesque]; ultra-conservatives in the Quebec clergy have twice carried their war against him to the Vatican itself . . ." To force the issue at Laval, continued Fraser, Duplessis had withheld half of a provincial $4,000,000 grant...
...province and approving the Social Action principles of Quebec's liberal clergy, was being prepared for reading in the churches of the province within a month. That would strengthen the stand of such other pro-labor prelates as the outspoken Rev. Georges-Henri Levesque, dean of Laval University's faculty of social sciences, Sherbrooke's Bishop Philippe Desranleau, and Quebec City's Archbishop Maurice...